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To: sheila rothstein who wrote (951)	8/10/1998 11:38:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

All - Ken Pomeranski has posted that none of us ever respond to, or even think about, some of the points raised by one of our resident naysayers. He must have been reading a different set of threads than I have, since I've seen many cogent rebuttals of the arguments made by each of the bears. Meanwhile, I thought I'd answer another argument which was raised many months ago. The argument was "sub-1000 dollar computers will never be able to include Zip drives because they will use small cases which have no room for additional storage." At the time, several people pointed out that external Zips would still be a possibility. Well, the September 1 issue of PC Magazine has a roundup of sub-1000 dollar machines. They evaluate features and performance of 37 different PC models priced under a grand. Guess how many of the 37 have room for an internal Zip drive? 37. And most of them also have room for a Jaz. Not surprisingly, none of them includes a Zip drive, since in this category price is everything. Some of these babies don't even have modems. But 18 out of the 37 models are priced at or below 900 dollars. That means a user could add an internal Zip and still not be spending more than a thousand bucks. That's one more bear argument which was based solely on supposition, now proven false by actual events. - Allen